ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,190, issued on March 11, was assigned to AIRBUS HELICOPTERS (Marignane, France).

"Method and system for checking a level of damage of at least one aircraft part, and associated aircraft" was invented by Stephane Cerqueira (Aix en Provence, France), Jeremy Jouve (Senas, France) and Herve Morel (Aix en Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for checking a level of damage of at least one part of an aircraft. According to the disclosure, such a method comprises at least: a collection step for receiving data representative of measurements of at least one flight parameter, the data being generated during a mission of the...